a mob surrounded the building. as the hour grew later, the crowd grew larger. inside peering through the curtains was a young kgb lieutenant colonel named vladimir putin. he was terrified that they were going to storm the building. putin was a junior officer, but the boss was away. he was in charge. the berlin wall had come down. police weren t going to help, and he called for instructions. desperate for help, putin dialed kgb headquarters in moscow over and over again. finally one official told him simply moscow is silent. and i think it felt like a deep betrayal to him. vladimir putin was on his own. he went down into the bowels of the building and fired up the fur furnace. he finds himself in the basement with a furnace shoveling documents as we hears demonstrations down on the street. they are burning the files as fast as the furnace is blowing up. putin torched thousands of pages of kgb documents and so credits as the crowd closed in. with the fire stil
everybody gets slammed by inflation. the trade off here is if you slow the economy to kill that inflation you may kill a million jobs. now you re balancing a million jobs in exchange for 320 million americans, 308 million americans that suffer inflation and that s what they re trying to do. elizabeth warren saying it s not worth it. the fed used this inflation as a leak in your roof, if you don t treat it now, you re not sure you have treated it now on the front end it could potentially become a bigger problem to solve. that s powell s and the fed s point, we have to tame it now because the risk of not taming inflation means it lingers higher for longer. i m dealing with it now with the furnace. you have inflation on your fur furnace? i had a guy come in, we can patch it, it s 20 years old
vladimir putin was on his own. he went down into the bowels of the building and fired up the fur furnace. he finds himself in the basement with a furnace shoveling documents as we hears demonstrations down on the street. they are burning the files as fast as the furnace is blowing up. putin torched thousands of pages of kgb documents and so credits as the crowd closed in. with the fire still raging, putin went outside and faced the mob, by himself. there are armed guards inside, he told them. they will shoot you. and he s able to bluff his way out of it and tell the crowd don t try it here. you re going to get hurt. putin s threat worked.